As an event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, this one day conference tooke place in St. George’s Hall, Dublin Castle. The conference was organised by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.

The focus of the conference was on developing new access to online cultural content to support education, cultural tourism, creative industries and to provide creative new ways for people to participate in their cultural heritage. Speakers included keynote speaker Lord Puttnam, Digital Champion for Ireland; Mr. Javier Hernandez-Ros, Head of Unit, Access to Information, Information Society and Media DG – European Commission; Professor Sara de Freitas, Serious Games Institute, Coventry University; Ms. Rossella Caffo, Director, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane; and Professor Jonathan Drori, Thoughtsmith and former Head of Commissioning, BBC Online.

The conference included a showcase for EU FP7 projects and national cultural institutions to display digital content initiatives and collections.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the EU’s economy. They represent 99.8% of all companies operating in the non-financial business sector, accounting for 67% of total employment and 57% of added value. Almost all of these SMEs … Continue reading →

Sound and effective policy discussion on future standards needs to be founded on solid common understandings, thus you are all invited to take this survey

Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM) is a high-visibility and participative Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). ViMM brings together Europe and the world’s leading public and private sector organizations working on Virtual Museums and … Continue reading →

led by Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University, this course starting mid-January 2018 provides a wide overview of tourism issues at UNESCO World Heritage Sites

This MOOC “Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites”, produced by the UNESCO-UNITWIN Network “Culture, Tourism, and Development”, provides an introduction to tourism at UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Moving from UNESCO’s principles and doctrines, the MOOC covers Communication Technologies, Economy, Management and … Continue reading →

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Call for Proposals: Digital Echoes Symposium 2018 / Reflections off the Future Date: 23 April 2018 As an acoustic phenomenon, an echo is a reflection of sound off a surface. The time it takes to reach this surface and return … Continue reading →

A digital project by Europeana invites museums and people to show the contribution migration makes to culture for European Year of Cultural Heritage

2018 will be the European Year of Cultural Heritage when citizens across Europe are invited to explore what it offers in all its forms. Europeana, the digital face of Europe’s cultural heritage, partners the Year and will supply the cross-border … Continue reading →

Organized by THID Tsinghua Heritage Institution for Digitalization in Beijing, this biannual event had attracted so far foreign experts from over 30 countries and regions promoting a tradition of international collaboration and exchange on the theme of cultural heritage, digital … Continue reading →

Running from September 9 to December 10 2017, this exhibition joins art and civic engagement to collectively imagining the futures of Philadelphia

A new exhibition, dedicated to the civic engagement, is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Set up by the artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, Philadelphia Assembled is different from any other exhibition because it is not putting pleasure … Continue reading →